President Trump rallies for Senator Ted Cruz in Houston

With two weeks to go until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump rallied his supporters in Houston on Monday in support of Senator Ted Cruz's re-election campaign.

Trump escalates immigration rhetoric at rally to boost Cruz

HOUSTON (AP) - President Donald Trump escalated his immigration rhetoric at a midterm rally in Texas on Monday, falsely accusing Democrats of "encouraging millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation."

North Texans cast early votes in record-breaking numbers

Early voting began on Monday across Texas and a hotly contested U.S. Senate race is driving a large number of people to the polls.

Anti-Ted Cruz message spotted on billboard truck near Houston Galleria

A Texas activist raised thousands of dollars for a billboard on wheels one of President Trump's tweets bashing U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. The truck was spotted near Houston's Galleria area on Monday, the day of the Trump Rally supporting Ted Cruz. 

At dueling events, Trump and Biden keeping focus on Nevada

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential White House challenger in 2020, are making election pushes several hundred miles apart from each other in pivotal Nevada, where early voting was beginning Saturday.

Pete Sessions, Mark Veasey speak candidly in congressional forum

Different views of the political landscape laid out before the Regional Chamber of Commerce on Friday as the business community looked through the political lens of both Republican Representative Pete Sessions and Democrat Marc Veasey.

Texas' O'Rourke tells national audience he'd impeach Trump

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democratic Senate hopeful Beto O'Rourke told a national television audience Thursday night that he'd vote to impeach President Donald Trump and believes Texas can lead the way to a national embracing of relaxed immigration policies and gun control - unapologetically liberal positions that may be hard for some in his deep-red state to stomach.

Biden: 'I hope' Democrats don't impeach Trump

(FOX NEWS) - Former Vice President Joe Biden said he doesn’t think Democratic leadership should try to impeach President Trump if they win back the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. Biden, an oft-critical voice of Trump and his administration, told “CBS This Morning” in an interview released Wednesday that “there’s no basis” to introduce...

Trump threatens Mexico over migrant caravan

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is lashing out over a caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States, saying that if Mexico does not stop the effort, he will use the military to "CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER."

Democrat Julian Castro says he'll 'likely' run in 2020

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democrat Julian Castro said Tuesday that he will likely seek the presidency in 2020 after months of signals from former President Barack Obama's housing secretary that he's preparing for a White House run. "I'm likely to do it," he told The Associated Press.

Trailing in polls, O'Rourke lays into Cruz in Texas debate

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Democrat Beto O'Rourke abandoned his usual message of unity and optimism and laid into Ted Cruz, hoping to reverse polls that show him fading against the Republican incumbent during the second debate of a Texas Senate race that's become one of the nation's most closely watched.

Trump tells AP he's not to blame if Republicans lose House

WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing the prospect of bruising electoral defeat in congressional elections, President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he won't accept the blame if his party loses control of the House in November, arguing his campaigning and endorsements have helped Republican candidates.

Cruz enters debate with polling lead; Trump rally coming

HOUSTON (AP) - Frank Randazzo, a retiree near Houston, volunteers for his local GOP office knocking on doors of undecided voters amid the most expensive U.S. Senate race in the country. He did a double take when a man with a Beto O'Rourke sign in his yard declared he was voting Republican.

Trump suggests 'rogue killers' murdered Saudi journalist

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump suggested Monday that "rogue killers" could be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an explanation offering U.S. ally Saudi Arabia a possible path out of a global diplomatic firestorm. The Saudis continued to deny they killed the writer, but there were indications the story could soon change.

Judge tosses Stormy Daniels' defamation suit against Trump

A federal judge dismissed Stormy Daniels' defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump on Monday, saying the president made a "hyperbolic statement" against a political adversary when he tweeted about a composite sketch the porn actress' lawyer released.